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I really don’t want to hype more that I should about issues surrounding the Malays lest people will say I’m just talk and talk as it’s easier to say than actually do something about it. I’m sure most of us are already aware of the Malay crisis in Malaysia (if you aren’t then you have a problem!) and more or less have a hand in to advert a total disaster in our own small way. And before you all think that I’m going all racist, just read on first and judge later.

As my fingers begin to tingle again (more like semut-semut than your normal spider’s sense) for something to type on this faithful laptop of mine, I searched again for some inspiration. The usual suspect is loading Google on chrome and randomly type anything I can think of in the short span of 2 seconds and begin to search. Today’s urge to write was largely fired up by a humble forwarded email (which happened to land into Yahoo!’s junk mail filter of all the places) from a long time friend.

Tomorrow will be a public holiday for all to enjoy regardless of creed, religion or occupation (but of course this doesn’t apply to all unfortunately), because tomorrow is Awwal Muharram or the beginning of the Islamic New Year. I bet you can already guess from the topic chosen above what will I write here. Yes, it is about the Malaysian Muslims ‘fondness’ to recite the End Year / New Year Du’a.

Before I go on, I like to make it clear that I am neither an expert in Hadiths or Shariah matters nor do I have a solid Islamic foundation to comment on such issues. Nor it is my intention to stir up frivolous matters or nitpick on things that are best be left alone. It is just EPI’s community service to bring forth some insights that should provide a better understanding to such long standing ‘faiths’ amongst fellow Muslims in Malaysia. After that, whether one chose to accept, rebut or denounce is entirely up to himself or herself.

Before I hang my head lowly and admit that this blog of mine has been infected with LTCD (Left to Collect Dust) syndrome, a normal disease that infect millions of webbies / bloggies / FBies etc worldwide, or surrender to another resounding AHAH! from nameless visitors to EPI, I say thee nay! In fact, I have been drafting several pieces of entries but decided arbitrarily that those writings don’t meet the qualities set by EPI’s stringent albeit randomly picked editorial board.